The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-03-23

was decorated levishly with rare flowers
and fruits. The menu cards were painted
with a separate design, that Of Mrs. Nellie
Grant Satoris having a very correctly paint
ed portrait of her father.
Lord Lansdowne has cabled his English
agents to oiSer his tenants reductions of Is
per cent. on the judicial rents and 20 on the
others-but with the condition that they
pay half the costs of all his efforts to con-.
pei them to pay the full rents. The ten
ants decline this condition because these
costs will be more than the proposed reduc-
ions themselves.
Sunday the police of st. Petersburg were
informed that a attempt might be made
on the life of the Car on that day, It being
the anniversary of the assassination of his
father, and as a result the police arrested
near the Imperial palace several persons
who were discovered holding dynamite
bombs in their hands ready to throw them
at the Car as he emerged. Two hundred
arrests have been made in all.
At n meeting of Richmond and Danville
security holders, in New York, it was de.
cided to levy another assessment on the
stock and pay off the receivers certificates.
The plan of reorganization has been mott.
fled to provide the payment Of 2 per cent.
interest on new bonds in 1888 and 5 per
cent. thereafter. 1t is also proposed TO
foreclose the road and organize a new com,
pany before July 1st.
Jefferson Davis has written a letter con.
tradicting the rumor that he was about to
visit Washington. lie says that he will
never see the Capital again. ct would be
pleasant to view the scenes which were
once SO familiar to me-" he adds, Though
l doubt if l would hardly recognize tic
city now, as it has 80 improved and grown.
No, | shall never again sec Washington.
I'm getting too old to travel"
Oscar Wilde's mother, Lady Wilde, who
is famous as "SperanZa," the patriotic poet
of the Dublin Nation, is said to be in such
straits that she will have to go to the poor
house or die of hunger, unless her country.
men C me to her aid. Her husband, Sil
William Wilde, who died long ago, in,
vested much of his money in land IN coun.
ties Wicklow and Glare, from which Lady
Wilde has not received any rent for six
years.
The remains of Captain Eads have ar
rived at Jacksonville. Touching the cause
OF his death it is stated that he suffered
from cold contracted winter before last,
but careful nursing, it was thought, would
bring him through. On March / he went
yachting with friends. On his return he
complained of severe pains in the breast.
Medical advice was summoned and every.
thing possible done to arrest the disease,
but without avail, and at 10 o'clock on
Tuesday morning, the 9Th inst, he expired.
The family of Charlie Morris, colored,
living near Millcdgcvillc, Ga, twelve in
number, have recently been poisoned in
some mysterious manncr One child is
dead. Other members Of the family are
in a critical condition. 1t is supposed that
the poisoning took place on Friday, and
that it is the outgrowth of voodooism re.
Gently practiced among the negroes living
on thai plantation and in the ~neighborhood.
The affair is causing much excitement and
will be Investigated thoroughly.